Multi-Path Fusion: A Hierarchical Machine Learning Approach for Combining Diverse Data Sets for a Forest Monitoring New Observing System.

K. Jon Ranson Kenneth Jon Ranson http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/kenneth.j.ranson James MacKinnon David J. Harding Mark Moussa Matt Brandt Paul M. Montesano Mark L. Carroll Randolph H. Wynne Valerie A. Thomas Fred Huemmrich K. Jon Ranson Multi-Path Fusion: A Hierarchical Machine Learning Approach for Combining Diverse Data Sets for a Forest Monitoring New Observing System. 1708-1711 2023 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282678 conf/igarss/2023 db/conf/igarss/igarss2023.html#MacKinnonHMBMCWTHR23 Guangning Yang David J. Harding Jeffrey R. Chen Mark A. Stephen Xiaoli Sun Hui Li Wei Lu David R. Durachka Zoran Kahric Kenji Numata Xiaozhen Xu Erwan Mazarico Kenneth Jon Ranson Philip W. Dabney James MacKinnon Travis W. Wise Adaptive Wavelength Scanning Lidar (AWSL) for 3D Mapping from Space. 4268-4271 2022 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884418 conf/igarss/2022 db/conf/igarss/igarss2022.html#YangHCSSLLDKNXM22 Wenjian Ni Guoqing Sun Kenneth Jon Ranson Paul M. Montesano Qinhuo Liu Zengyuan Li Vyacheslav I. Kharuk Zhiyu Zhang 0001 LandRS: a Virtual Constellation Simulator for InSAR, LiDAR Waveform and Stereo Imagery Over Mountainous Forest Landscapes. 4892-4895 2019 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898106 conf/igarss/2019 db/conf/igarss/igarss2019.html#NiSRMLLKZ19

Paul Mannix Montesano Christopher S. R. Neigh Joseph O. Sexton Min Feng Saurabh Channan Kenneth Jon Ranson John R. Townshend Calibration and Validation of Landsat Tree Cover in the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone. 551 2016 8 Remote. Sens. 7 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8070551 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114578405 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing8.html#MontesanoNSFCRT16

Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo Batuhan Osmanoglu Seung-Kuk Lee K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Tobias Bollian Development of Next Generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar architectures. 2109-2111 2016 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729544 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56928501 conf/igarss/2016 db/conf/igarss/igarss2016.html#RinconFOLRSB16

Wenjian Ni Guoqing Sun Kenneth Jon Ranson Characterization of ASTER GDEM elevation data over vegetated area compared with lidar data. 198-211 2015 8 Int. J. Digit. Earth 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2013.861025 db/journals/digearth/digearth8.html#NiSR15

Jacqueline Rosette Bruce D. Cook Ross Nelson Chengquan Huang Jeffrey G. Masek Compton J. Tucker Guoqing Sun Wenli Huang 0001 Paul M. Montesano Jérémy Rubio-Gil K. Jon Ranson Sensor Compatibility for Biomass Change Estimation Using Remote Sensing Data Sets: Part of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System Initiative. 1511-1515 2015 12 IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2015.2411262 db/journals/lgrs/lgrs12.html#RosetteCNHMTSHM15

Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo Seung-Kuk Lee Batuhan Osmanoglu K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar (DBSAR): Single-pass interferometry for forest structure estimation. 200-202 2015 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325734 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988066 conf/igarss/2015 db/conf/igarss/igarss2015.html#RinconFLORS15 Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo Batuhan Osmanoglu Seung-Kuk Lee K. Jon Ranson Victor Marrero Mark Yeary Next generation Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR-2). 2774-2777 2015 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326389 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988069 conf/igarss/2015 db/conf/igarss/igarss2015.html#RinconFOLRMY15

Paul M. Montesano Guoqing Sun Ralph Dubayah Kenneth Jon Ranson The Uncertainty of Plot-Scale Forest Height Estimates from Complementary Spaceborne Observations in the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone. 10070-10088 2014 6 Remote. Sens. 10 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61010070 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing6.html#MontesanoSDR14

Wenjian Ni Guoqing Sun Kenneth Jon Ranson Zhiyu Zhang 0001 Yating He Wenli Huang 0001 Zhifeng Guo Model-Based Analysis of the Influence of Forest Structures on the Scattering Phase Center at L-Band. 3937-3946 2014 52 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278171 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs52.html#NiSRZHHG14

Bruce D. Cook Lawrence A. Corp Ross F. Nelson Elizabeth M. Middleton Douglas C. Morton Joel T. McCorkel Jeffrey G. Masek Kenneth Jon Ranson Vuong Ly Paul M. Montesano NASA Goddard's LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager. 4045-4066 2013 5 Remote. Sens. 8 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5084045 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing5.html#CookCNMMMMRLM13

Jacqueline Rosette Peter R. J. North Jérémy Rubio-Gil Bruce D. Cook Sietse O. Los Juan Suárez 0001 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson J. Bryan Blair Evaluating Prospects for Improved Forest Parameter Retrieval From Satellite LiDAR Using a Physically-Based Radiative Transfer Model. 45-53 2013 6 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2244199 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57648173 db/journals/staeors/staeors6.html#RosetteNRCLSSRB13

Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Martin Perrine Quenton Bonds Susan Valett Stephen E. Seufert Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (DBSAR) polarimetric operation during the Eco3D flight campaign. 1549-1552 2012 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351101 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988094 conf/igarss/2012 db/conf/igarss/igarss2012.html#RinconFRSPBVS12 Temilola Fatoyinbo Rafael F. Rincon David J. Harding Charles K. Gatebe K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Philip W. Dabney Miguel O. Roman The 2011 Eco3D flight campaign: Vegetation structure and biomass estimation from simultaneous SAR, lidar and radiometer measurements. 3387-3390 2012 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350694 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988089 conf/igarss/2012 db/conf/igarss/igarss2012.html#FatoyinboRHGRSDR12 Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Manohar Deshpande Richard D. Hale Arvind Bhat Martin Perrine Cornelis F. Du Toit Quenton Bonds Victor Marrero Paul James Development of the EcoSAR P-band synthetic aperture radar. 4505-4508 2012 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350469 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988092 conf/igarss/2012 db/conf/igarss/igarss2012.html#RinconFRSDHBPTBMJ12 Georgi T. Georgiev James J. Butler 0001 Kurtis J. Thome K. Jon Ranson Michael D. King Assessment of multiangular polarization contribution to the bidirectional reflectance of natural samples. 1017-1020 2011 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049306 conf/igarss/2011 db/conf/igarss/igarss2011.html#GeorgievBTRK11 Rafael F. Rincon Temilola Fatoyinbo Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Martin Perrine Manohar Deshpande Quenton Bonds The EcoSAR P-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. 1512-1515 2011 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049355 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988099 conf/igarss/2011 db/conf/igarss/igarss2011.html#RinconFSRPDB11 Temilola Fatoyinbo Rafael F. Rincon Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Ecosar: A P- band digital beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure ecosystem structure and biomass. 1524-1527 2011 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049358 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54988098 conf/igarss/2011 db/conf/igarss/igarss2011.html#FatoyinboRSR11

Dawei Liu Guoqing Sun Zhifeng Guo K. Jon Ranson Yang Du Three-Dimensional Coherent Radar Backscatter Model and Simulations of Scattering Phase Center of Forest Canopies. 349-357 2010 48 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2009.2024301 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs48.html#LiuSGRD10

Georgi T. Georgiev James J. Butler 0001 Kurtis J. Thome K. Jon Ranson Michael D. King The effect of incident light polarization on vegetation Bidirectional Reflectance Factor. 1652-1655 2010 conf/igarss/2010 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652893 db/conf/igarss/igarss2010.html#GeorgievBTRK10 Matthew Sun Wenjian Ni K. Jon Ranson Simulation studies on data fusion algorithms for forest structure from lidar and SAR data. 3287-3290 2010 conf/igarss/2010 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5648827 db/conf/igarss/igarss2010.html#SunNR10 K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Effects of forest disturbances on forest structural parameters retrieval from lidar waveform data. 4370-4373 2010 conf/igarss/2010 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652562 db/conf/igarss/igarss2010.html#RansonS10 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Forest Biomass Retrieval from Lidar and Radar. V:300-303 2009 IGARSS (5) https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417671 conf/igarss/2009 db/conf/igarss/igarss2009.html#SunR09 Andrea Donnellan Paul Rosen 0002 K. Jon Ranson Howard A. Zebker Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI). III:5-8 2008 IGARSS (3) https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779268 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58469279 conf/igarss/2008 db/conf/igarss/igarss2008.html#DonnellanRRZ08 Zhifeng Guo Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Wenjian Ni Wenhan Qin The Potential of Combined Lidar and SAR Data in Retrieving Forest Parameters using Model Analysis. V:542-545 2008 IGARSS (5) https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780149 conf/igarss/2008 db/conf/igarss/igarss2008.html#GuoSRNQ08 K. Jon Ranson Ross Nelson Daniel Kimes Guoqing Sun Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Paul M. Montesano Using MODIS and GLAS data to develop timber volume estimates in central Siberia. 2306-2309 2007 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423302 conf/igarss/2007 db/conf/igarss/igarss2007.html#RansonNKSKM07 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Dawei Liu Benjamin Koetz Simulation studies of forest structure using 3D lidar and radar models. 2562-2565 2007 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423367 conf/igarss/2007 db/conf/igarss/igarss2007.html#SunRLK07

Benjamin Koetz Felix Morsdorf Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Klaus I. Itten Britta Allgöwer Inversion of a lidar waveform model for forest biophysical parameter estimation. 49-53 2006 3 IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2005.856706 db/journals/lgrs/lgrs3.html#KoetzMSRIA06

Benjamin Koetz Guoqing Sun Felix Morsdorf K. Jon Ranson Mathias Kneubühler Klaus I. Itten Britta Allgöwer Inversion of Combined Radiative Transfer Models for Imaging Spectrometer and LIDAR Data. 395-398 2006 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2006.106 conf/igarss/2006 db/conf/igarss/igarss2006.html#KoetzSMRKIA06 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Katalin A. Kovacs Changes in the Taiga-Tundra boundary observed with Landsat. 722-724 2004 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368503 conf/igarss/2004 db/conf/igarss/igarss2004.html#SunRKK04 K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Katalin A. Kovacs Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Landcover attributes from ICESat GLAS data in Central Siberia. 753-756 2004 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368511 conf/igarss/2004 db/conf/igarss/igarss2004.html#RansonSKK04 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Zhifeng Guo Combined tree growth, l-system, and radar backscatter modeling. 891-894 2004 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368550 conf/igarss/2004 db/conf/igarss/igarss2004.html#SunRG04 K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Katalin A. Kovacs Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Use of ICESat GLAS data for forest disturbance studies in central Siberia. 1936-1939 2004 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370722 conf/igarss/2004 db/conf/igarss/igarss2004.html#RansonSKK04a K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Katalin A. Kovacs Multi-sensor approach for assessing the taiga-tundra boundary. 969-971 2003 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293980 conf/igarss/2003 db/conf/igarss/igarss2003.html#RansonSKK03 Viatcheslav I. Kharuk M. L. Dvinskaya K. Jon Ranson Fire cycling in the larch-dominated communities. 1296-1298 2003 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294088 conf/igarss/2003 db/conf/igarss/igarss2003.html#KharukDR03 S. T. Im S. M. Gorodzankina Viatcheslav I. Kharuk K. Jon Ranson Radarsat data for Siberian plain ecosystems classification. 2562-2564 2003 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294509 conf/igarss/2003 db/conf/igarss/igarss2003.html#ImGKR03 K. Jon Ranson NASA's EOS Terra mission update. 3023-3024 2003 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294668 conf/igarss/2003 db/conf/igarss/igarss2003.html#Ranson03 K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Katalin A. Kovacs Viatcheslav I. Kharuk MODIS NDVI response following fires in Siberia. 3290-3292 2003 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294759 conf/igarss/2003 db/conf/igarss/igarss2003.html#RansonSKK03a Geoffrey M. Henebry Tony Fountain Jan Chomicki K. Jon Ranson Spatio-temporal Data Models of Biogeophysical Fields for Ecological Forecasting. 2002 conf/dgo/2002 DG.O http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1123182 db/conf/dgo/dgo2002.html#HenebryFCR02 Geoffrey M. Henebry Tony Fountain Jan Chomicki K. Jon Ranson Toward Spatio-temporal Models of Biogeophysical Fields for Ecological Forecasting (BDEI). 2002 conf/dgo/2002 DG.O http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1123178 db/conf/dgo/dgo2002.html#HenebryFCR02a Guoqing Sun Laura Rocchio Jeffrey G. Masek Darrel L. Williams K. Jon Ranson Characterization of forest recovery from fire using Landsat and SAR data. 1076-1078 2002 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025780 conf/igarss/2002 db/conf/igarss/igarss2002.html#SunRMWR02 Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Modeling lidar and radar returns of forest canopies for data fusion. 1387-1389 2002 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026125 conf/igarss/2002 db/conf/igarss/igarss2002.html#SunR02 K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Katalin A. Kovacs Viatcheslav I. Kharuk Utility of SARs for mapping forest disturbance in Siberia. 2081-2083 2002 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026451 conf/igarss/2002 db/conf/igarss/igarss2002.html#RansonSKK02

K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Effects of environmental conditions on boreal forest classification and biomass estimates with SAR. 1242-1252 2000 38 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.843016 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs38.html#RansonS00

Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson Modeling lidar returns from forest canopies. 2617-2626 2000 38 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.885208 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs38.html#SunR00

Yoram J. Kaufman David D. Herring K. Jon Ranson G. James Collatz Earth Observing System AM1 mission to Earth. 1045-1055 1998 36 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.700989 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs36.html#KaufmanHRC98

Guoqing Sun K. Jon Ranson A three-dimensional radar backscatter model of forest canopies. 372-382 1995 33 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.1995.8746018 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.377937 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127585814 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs33.html#SunR95

K. Jon Ranson Sassan Saatchi Guoqing Sun Boreal forest ecosystem characterization with SIR-C/XSAR. 867-876 1995 33 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.406673 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs33.html#RansonSS95

K. Jon Ranson Guoqing Sun Mapping biomass of a northern forest using multifrequency SAR data. 388-396 1994 32 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.295053 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs32.html#RansonS94

K. Jon Ranson Sassan S. Saatchi C-band microwave scattering from small balsam fir. 924-932 1992 30 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 5 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.175327 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs30.html#RansonS92

James R. Irons Kenneth Jon Ranson Darrel L. Williams Richard R. Irish Frederick G. Huegel An off-nadir-pointing imaging spectroradiometer for terrestrial ecosystem studies. 66-74 1991 29 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.103294 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs29.html#IronsRWIH91

Narinder S. Chauhan Roger H. Lang Kenneth Jon Ranson Radar modeling of a boreal forest. 627-638 1991 29 IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/36.135825 db/journals/tgrs/tgrs29.html#ChauhanLR91

Britta Allgöwer Arvind Bhat J. Bryan Blair Tobias Bollian Quenton Bonds Matt Brandt James J. Butler 0001 Mark L. Carroll Saurabh Channan Narinder S. Chauhan Jeffrey R. Chen Jan Chomicki G. James Collatz Bruce D. Cook Lawrence A. Corp Philip W. Dabney Manohar Deshpande Andrea Donnellan Yang Du Ralph Dubayah David R. Durachka M. L. Dvinskaya Temilola Fatoyinbo Min Feng Tony Fountain Charles K. Gatebe Georgi T. Georgiev S. M. Gorodzankina Zhifeng Guo Richard D. Hale David J. Harding Yating He Geoffrey M. Henebry David D. Herring Chengquan Huang Wenli Huang 0001 Frederick G. Huegel Fred Huemmrich S. T. Im Richard R. Irish James R. Irons Klaus I. Itten Paul James Zoran Kahric Yoram J. Kaufman Viatcheslav I. KharukVyacheslav I. Kharuk Daniel Kimes Michael D. King Mathias Kneubühler Benjamin Koetz Katalin A. Kovacs Roger H. Lang Seung-Kuk Lee Hui Li Zengyuan Li Dawei Liu Qinhuo Liu Sietse O. Los Wei Lu Vuong Ly James MacKinnon Victor Marrero Jeffrey G. Masek Erwan Mazarico Joel McCorkelJoel T. McCorkel Elizabeth M. Middleton Paul M. MontesanoPaul Mannix Montesano Felix Morsdorf Douglas C. Morton Mark Moussa Christopher S. R. Neigh Ross F. NelsonRoss Nelson Wenjian Ni Peter R. J. North Kenji Numata Batuhan Osmanoglu Martin Perrine Wenhan Qin Rafael F. Rincon Laura Rocchio Miguel O. Roman Paul A. Rosen 0002Paul Rosen 0002 Jacqueline Rosette Jérémy Rubio-Gil Sassan SaatchiSassan S. Saatchi Stephen E. Seufert Joseph O. Sexton Mark StephenMark A. Stephen Juan Suarez-MinguezJuan Suárez 0001 Guoqing Sun Matthew Sun Xiaoli Sun Valerie A. Thomas Kurtis J. Thome Cornelis F. Du Toit John R. Townshend Compton J. Tucker Susan Valett Darrel L. Williams Travis W. Wise Randolph H. Wynne Xiaozhen Xu Guangning Yang Mark B. YearyMark Yeary Howard A. Zebker Zhiyu Zhang 0001